Josef Meixner: His life and his orthogonal polynomials

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Publication date 01-2019
Journal Indagationes Mathematicae
Volume | Issue number 30 | 1
Pages (from-to) 250-264
Number of pages 15
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
Abstract This paper starts with a biographical sketch of the life of Josef Meixner. Then his motivations to work on orthogonal polynomials and special functions are reviewed. Meixner's 1934 paper introducing the Meixner and Meixner–Pollaczek polynomials is discussed in detail. Truksa's forgotten 1931 paper, which already contains the Meixner polynomials, is mentioned. The paper ends with a survey of the reception of Meixner's 1934 paper.
Document type Review article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indag.2018.09.009
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